Amla the tortured and the torturer as SA drip runs into bottomless bucket

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Colombo

Chinese water torture has nothing on the runs that SA dripped into a bottomless bucket at Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in Colombo yesterday.

It was difficult to tell whether Hashim Amla was the torturer or among the tortured. He scored an undefeated 139 and was at the crease for more than eight hours or all but 36 minutes of his team’s entire innings.

“He was really patient and he applied himself very well,” coach Russell Domingo said. “He stuck to his gameplan.”...